Structured Extraction of Terms and Conditions from German and English Online Shops

Tobias Schamel; Daniel Braun; Florian Matthes

Structured Extraction of Terms and Conditions from German and English Online Shops

Tobias Schamel, Daniel Braun, Florian Matthes

Informatics 19 - Chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems

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Abstract

The automated analysis of Terms and Conditions has gained attention in recent years, mainly due to its relevance to consumer protection. Well-structured data sets are the base for every analysis. While content extraction, in general, is a well-researched field and many open source libraries are available, our evaluation shows, that existing solutions cannot extract Terms and Conditions in sufficient quality, mainly because of their special structure. In this paper, we present an approach to extract the content and hierarchy of Terms and Conditions from German and English online shops. Our evaluation shows, that the approach outperforms the current state of the art. A python implementation of the approach is made available under an open license.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ECNLP 2022 - 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop
Editors	Shervin Malmasi, Oleg Rokhlenko, Nicola Ueffing, Ido Guy, Eugene Agichtein, Surya Kallumadi
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	181-190
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781955917353
State	Published - 2022
Event	5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, ECNLP 2022 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 26 May 2022 → …

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Name	ECNLP 2022 - 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop

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Conference	5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, ECNLP 2022
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	26/05/22 → …

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Schamel, T., Braun, D., & Matthes, F. (2022). Structured Extraction of Terms and Conditions from German and English Online Shops. In S. Malmasi, O. Rokhlenko, N. Ueffing, I. Guy, E. Agichtein, & S. Kallumadi (Eds.), ECNLP 2022 - 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop (pp. 181-190). (ECNLP 2022 - 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Schamel, Tobias ; Braun, Daniel ; Matthes, Florian. / Structured Extraction of Terms and Conditions from German and English Online Shops. ECNLP 2022 - 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop. editor / Shervin Malmasi ; Oleg Rokhlenko ; Nicola Ueffing ; Ido Guy ; Eugene Agichtein ; Surya Kallumadi. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022. pp. 181-190 (ECNLP 2022 - 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop).

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Schamel, T, Braun, D & Matthes, F 2022, Structured Extraction of Terms and Conditions from German and English Online Shops. in S Malmasi, O Rokhlenko, N Ueffing, I Guy, E Agichtein & S Kallumadi (eds), ECNLP 2022 - 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop. ECNLP 2022 - 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 181-190, 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, ECNLP 2022, Dublin, Ireland, 26/05/22.

Structured Extraction of Terms and Conditions from German and English Online Shops. / Schamel, Tobias; Braun, Daniel; Matthes, Florian.
ECNLP 2022 - 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop. ed. / Shervin Malmasi; Oleg Rokhlenko; Nicola Ueffing; Ido Guy; Eugene Agichtein; Surya Kallumadi. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022. p. 181-190 (ECNLP 2022 - 5th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop).

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